Roger II of Sicily
King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154 · Italy · Historical Figures · Lived 1095 to 1154 · aged 58
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Roger II inherited the County of Sicily in 1105 as a boy, added the Duchy of Apulia and Calabria in 1127, and in 1130 convinced an antipope to crown him King of Sicily - the first king on the Italian peninsula in three centuries. By 1148 he'd taken enough of North Africa to style himself King of Africa. He ran a court in three languages, minted gold like Byzantium, and built a state apparatus that survived him by a century.
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